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What’s your story? It’s a question human beings have been asking each other since we first gathered around a campfire. Millennia later, this human need for storytelling hasn’t changed. We communicate most effectively through our personal stories - and our professional success depends on it. This groundbreaking guide shows you how to tap into the timeless power of storytelling to transform your business.

That’s what your colleagues or clients will say once you have facilitated a workshop using what you will learn in this book by nationally recognized facilitator and award-winning author Eric Meade.

Get on the express for first impression. Know how to charm and connect with people upon meeting them, and create a lasting impression. Do you get butterflies in your stomach whenever you enter a room full of people? Do you become nervous with the thought of having to engage with a fellow stranger? Do you sweat like a pig at any attempt of connecting with others? Don't worry, you're not alone! This is all too common. It's normal that we all want to make a good first impression upon other people.

It really is true: What you say and how you say it speaks volumes about your professional promise and leadership potential. Whether it's giving an impromptu sales pitch or keynoting a major business conference, public speaking can make you or break you.

How to communicate in verbal, non-verbal, writing, and visual communication. Have you ever had a conversation with someone only to later find out they completely misunderstood you? Have you ever had to make a presentation and didn't know how to correctly convey you message? How to Communicate will teach you how to successfully deliver a message so your audience will comprehend the exact meaning of that message.

NLP is currently used in business, sports coaching, therapy, counselling, coaching, training, teaching, sales, advertising - in fact in any area where people want to achieve better results for themselves and others. In this Practitioner manual, we are not presenting NLP as something it is not. NLP is a powerful toolkit, and it is well worth the time and effort required to learn and master its subtleties. You learn all basic techniques that you need to know to practice NLP!

China’s meteoric rise to economic powerhouse might be charted with dams. Every river in the country has been tapped to power exploding cities and factories - every river but one. Running through one of the richest natural areas in the world, the Nujiang’s raging waters were on the verge of being dammed when a 2004 government moratorium halted construction. Might the Chinese dragon bow to the "Angry River"? Would Beijing put local people and their land ahead of power and profit? Could this remote region actually become a model for sustainable growth? Ed Grumbine traveled to the far corners of China’s Yunnan province to find out.

In this book, Public Speaking: The Best Tactics to Master the Art of Speaking and Presenting in Public, you will be provided with valuable tools and techniques that will allow you to achieve success in any occasion in which you are called to speak in front of a crowd.

People don't always communicate well. It's a fact of life. But you don't have to be a helpless witness or participant in a conversation that steadily unravels into misunderstandings, confusion, and even hostility. You can take charge - and you can make a difference! Breakthrough Communication provides easy-to-implement strategies for virtually any business situation, whether it's one-on-one or within a group.

Public speaking causes anxiety in 75 percent of the population. Does your career depend upon mastery of this fear? Whether it’s giving a report to a handful of coworkers in a conference room or an auditorium full of your peers, this book can help you get over the nerves. Conquering that internal struggle is the focus of this book.

Do you have a fear of public speaking? Kyle Faber tells you exactly how you can overcome your fears of public speaking, how to prepare for your first speech, how to develop confidence, how to select your topic, how to analyze your audience, how to organize your speech, how to outline your speech, how to prepare visual aids, and how to deliver your speech and your message effectively. It's all here!

Enter the speaking arena like a pro. Present: Techniques from the Professionals’ Playbook will take you from concept to delivery, featuring scores of engaging and powerful tips. In any arena where words are critical, effective communication tools make all the difference. This book shows you how to master those skills.

Fortune 500 strategist and best-selling management author Ken Tucker explores the challenging skill sets required to navigate conflict and crucial conversations effectively. Drawing upon decades of experience in the corporate and government worlds, Tucker teaches leaders how to say what they really need to say and say it right, so their people and organizations execute the results they want and need.

Unmute Yourself: Speak Up to Stand Out is a game changer. A call to action for professional women who are ready to get their seat at the table—then build a bigger table. We start with the million-dollar problem—have you ever tried applying the gender wage gap to a career's lifetime? The numbers are staggering. Even more eye-opening is how women are holding themselves back and creating their own glass ceiling. Confidence impacts outcomes, and if you're ready to speak up to stand out, this book is for you.

How will you balance the roles of business owner and mother? Would you like wisdom from women who've been there? Here's something you already know. When you become a mother, you want flexibility. You want to be there for your baby, and you want results in your business. You want to make good money, and to make a difference. All over the globe, women are taking control by starting their own businesses - businesses that (they hope) will grow around the needs of their babies.

From emperors to businessmen, all have taken a look at what it means to be influential. This is a great place to start learning mannerisms, word choices, and the type of persuasion that will help you to make better use of the six traits of influence. Never forget that everybody has something they can do to get them on your side. This book will provide insight into working better with colleagues, tips on conversation and social interaction, cues that those around you will respond to like paid actors.

Getting our voices heard can be a nerve-wracking and overwhelming task - particularly in a world where everyone seems to have something to say. The ability to present our ideas with confidence is now a coveted skill. Yet on stage, we become this other person: less funny, less engaging, less human. Mark Shayler draws on his own experience - from nervous speaker to charismatic compere - to guide you through the task of public speaking.

When I coach speaking under pressure, my specialty is to help the speaker make a real and significant change during one private session of less than two hours. I learned this from the culmination of my life's journey, as told in these true memoirs of my real-life experiences being an actor, a spy, and a licensed private eye. There are no unrealistic techniques or made-up theories in this book. Every solution given to you has been actually done by me or witnessed in others. Everything is proven, and everything works - tried and true.

Many people struggle with remote meetings: a cocktail of factors, such as technical barriers and invisible group norms, increase the uncertainty and risk of the already vulnerable task of collaborating and sharing ideas. When remote meetings go badly, they go really badly. Few things feel as lonely and intimidating as speaking to a screen with unreadable faces staring back in silence. This book will help you improve the quality of your remote meetings.

In this groundbreaking new book behavioural experts Stephen Martin and Joseph Marks pinpoint the eight powerful traits that determine who gets heard and who gets ignored. They show how such apparently irrelevant details as a person’s appearance or their financial status influence our response to what they have to say, regardless of its wisdom or foolishness. They explain how trust is won, even when it may not be deserved. They analyse the nature of the charismatic speaker and the verbal and physical cues they employ.